A crash course on measuring ROI

Before making any IT investment, identifying the value of ROI is important to clearly demonstrate the financial gains of the proposed project, compared to the relative cost.

The metric is so important that more than 80% of companies typically do an ROI calculation prior to approving IT projects costing $50,000 or more.

The ROI calculation is valuable because it creates a ratio between the expected net benefits of a project in relation to its costs, one that the team can use to compare to other proposed projects and against internal investment goals and criteria.

Although ROI is a great summary financial metric for assessing and measuring project viability and performance, it should be used with several other financial measures including NPV, payback period and internal rate of return calculations.

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A check-list for dealing with a fatality involving anyone you have a 'duty of care' over

We present a summary of things to consider when dealing with any unexpected fatality, be it a member of staff, customer or anyone else you may have a legal duty of care over. This is based on experience of dealing with a number of these tragic events.

Do people really understand data warehousing?

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A data warehousing initiative shouldn't result in multiple data silos, but too often that's just what happens. The problem is that data warehousing is misunderstood.

It's been 20 years since the term "data warehousing" was first coined. Since then, it has evolved into a mainstream activity for all larger organisations, with many undertaking one or more data warehousing projects over the last decade.

But, even after 20 years in the marketplace, it's evident that data warehousing is still misunderstood.